Peter Glenane, far left, and his sons, Liam, 15, and Declan, 14, walk along the Santa Ana riverbed during a sweltering heat wave Monday, July 10, 2017, to pass out water and some food to people living in a homeless encampment. (Roxana Kopetman, SCNG)

As a heat wave continued to beat down on Orange County, Peter Glenane and his teen boys pulled a wagon Monday along the Santa Ana River to distribute water bottles to the homeless.

“People are here, and they have some basic human needs,” said Glenane, who passed out water bottles, protein bars, and boxes of Girl Scout cookies.

“We just try to help them in some small way.”

The heat is expected to last through the weekend, reaching the high 80s and 90s in inland Orange County, said Derek Schroeter of the National Weather Service.

On Monday, at least three cities reached 90 degrees: Santa Ana, Fullerton and Yorba Linda, where it hit 94.

Children keep cool as they splash around in the fountain at Lemon Park in Fullerton, CA on Monday afternoon, July 10, 2017. (Photo by KEN STEINHARDT, Orange County Register/SCNG)

Peter Glenane, far left, and his sons, Liam, 15, and Declan, 14, walk along the Santa Ana riverbed during a sweltering heat wave Monday, July 10, 2017, to pass out water and some food to people living in a homeless encampment. (Roxana Kopetman, SCNG)

Declan Glenane, far right, his brother, Liam, and their father, Peter Glenane, pour dog food into bowls for a homeless man to give his dog on Monday, July 10, 2017. The Glenane family, who live in Orange, stocked up on bottles of water and food to distribute to people living in tents along the Santa Ana River. (Roxana Kopetman, SCNG.)

Ethan Ruiz, 10, of Anaheim keeps cool in the fountain at Lemon Park in Fullerton, CA on Monday afternoon, July 10, 2017. (Photo by KEN STEINHARDT, Orange County Register/SCNG)

A boy gets lost inside a circle of water as children keep cool in the fountain at Lemon Park in Fullerton, CA on Monday afternoon, July 10, 2017. (Photo by KEN STEINHARDT, Orange County Register/SCNG)

Declan Glenane, 14, far left, and his brother Liam, 15, distribute food to the homeless in Anaheim on Monday, July 10. Led by their father, Peter, far right, they brought bottles of water, boxes of protein bars, canned goods and boxes of Girl Scout cookies bought by their mother, a Girl Scout troupe leader. They included a large bag of dog food for those who have pets living with them in the homeless encampment. (Roxana Kopetman, SCNG)

Zach Southall, center, and Steve Fey, far right, hand out breakfast Monday, July 10, to people living at the homeless encampment by the Santa Ana River in Anaheim. Southall started the small nonprofit Charity on Wheels to help get homeless off the street. (Roxana Kopetman, SCNG)

Some patchy low clouds and fog at the beaches during nighttime will help keep the coastal areas a bit cooler but more humid, Schroeter said. Temperatures there will reach the low- to mid-70s. On Monday, the humidity level was about 85 percent on the coast compared to 37 percent in Fullerton, he said.

For the homeless in tents propped up next to the now-dry Santa Ana River, the hot weather is an enemy.

“I’m just trying to stay cool,” said Jennae Bechtel, 34, as she pushed a shopping cart with two five-gallon jugs filled with water.

People living along the river said they are visited often, especially on the weekends, by church groups and others who bring them food. One group even picks up their dirty laundry and returns it clean. On Monday, three men from the Orange-based Charity on Wheels, a homeless outreach group, showed up with breakfast: chilled coffee, doughnuts, bananas.

Glenane, a P.E. teacher at Mendez Fundamental Intermediate School in Santa Ana, said he occasionally comes out on his own to the makeshift homeless encampment to distribute food.

“I just talked to a guy who is 75,” Glenane said, on the Anaheim/Orange border. “He missed a payment or two on his trailer home and now he’s here.”

On Monday, the father of five brought with him sons Liam, 15, and Declan, 14, both students at Mater Dei High School. The red wagon also held canned goods and a big bag of dog food for those with pets.

Glenane said he wanted his children to join him “so they understand how blessed we are to have a home and many good things in life. It’s right to pay it back.”

Marie Olague, 38, accepted a couple of water bottles, some cans of SpaghettiOs and three boxes of Girl Scout cookies. To keep cool, she wears tank tops and shorts – “and I wet my hair all day.”

“Water goes quick,” said Olague, who said she lost her home in Whittier after she got laid off.

Olague’s brother-in-law, Aktiv Santiago, 26, said he was grateful for the donations from Glenane and his boys: “That’s just a good heart.”

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